Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-24
LOS ANGELES.

In Los ANGELES.
Nsw Yerker Thinks OF
0uR CITY.
Al1otine i extracted from a let
bs Schenectady Union. New
= ! gentleman now soiourning in
6leos
nt1o you : little idea of Los
: place In Southern California,
nofs are no fires TO build, fruit
Vrfnbles Of all kinds the year
10 bean tiful, sunshiny days, out
lille 365-why shouldn't be
Hat I will cease this minute to
~ myself, and give the readers
gnfoa Z little idea about the
4rrslss b mot, Is generally sup
IL 1eshroom city springing INTO
ia ! bubb!e and probably as sue
e aisnppenr. On the contrary,
q aro1sh did not begin until the
%cl ne Southern Pacific railway,
The iirst settlement was made
Is the Spanish on September .,
4 Fortv-six souls comprised the
|,e of the now metropolis OF South,
Slilorpia. The little pueblo grew
Iovglv. and in 1870 q population OF
co0 8 shown to her credit; COM
! 1cetly OF Mexicans, and amid all
rsitemsnt occasioned by the dis
: a the precious metals all around
;he Numbered peacefully and con.
ilv On. Steam proved more potent
eoId: with the iron horse came pro
Tourists and prospective settlers
"a IN to see the land, where winter
: came, and fruits of the
= hung ripe and luscious from
Rexlnning to the ending of each
fhey saw . land of boundless
nrcos for the tiller of the soil,
9 sanitarium for the sick. Within
~ Of $50 miles of the city a eli
, ADAPTED to any disease may bt
4 Il you wish the bracing air o.
Iountains they stand within few
4 Of you, their snow-clad peaks
- tie clouds, and frowning down
! q eminence of 10000 feet above
Isa level. Do you love the sea
s! The Pacific ocean lies almost al
! doors, and every hour in the day
| cheek is famed with the soft cool
refreshing breeze, that is waited
: the mighty deep. If your dis
requires : hot, dry climate, the
ro6o desert lies near, aboundipg il
4 springs, which are said to be very
ospiul in the cure of rheumatism and
red ailments.
Il while Los Angeles is essentially a
thy resort, o mecca for the sick
3 and beyond all this she stand;
eminent lin the far West as q me
oils. Although she is provincial il
reat many respects, in Others she
de- abreast Of any city in the Union
hes your horse car, two cable cars
electric car lines of street railways
utclAss street lighting by means o
rio towers,a good ire department.
Z splendid water supply. Her pub
lchouls will bear comparison witt
: Of the East. and her churches arr
dit to the city. Her points of de
noy are, bad streets and sidewalks
an insufficient and poorly.equippet
- department.
small village Of adobe houses IN.
huts has, within thirty years
led to . city of nearly $4,000 inhab
=, md fully one.half of the popula
and growth has come within fiv
few words in regard to the countr
ID lies around and is tributary I
Angeles, upon which, in a gres
sure, depends her future great
and I will close. The perso
thinks that this section of countr
nothing but few orange tree
! iine climate in the way of resources
adly mistaken. Tho corn crop il
Angeles county alone last year wa
! 2, 600, 900 bushels, the wheat GRO,
q. 900 bushels, barley 1000, ,OO
hel.. Alfalfa clover grows from 81,
Ight crops q year, averaging a casl
IN of from $S5 to 500 per acre
le all kinds of garden products grow
eadily a. anywhere in the east, an
. vegetables yield several crops
!. Fruit raising Of conrse is th
Il industry and the resources in tina
ction are practically unlimited
rich raising and stock farming ar
,essfully carried on, while almos
kinds Of mineral abound in pay
quantities near here. East {
city lies the San Gabriel Valley
,re some Of the largest Vineyards in I'll
Id are located, wnlle ambitious, pro
ing young towns, too numerous t
sify, add their quota to the upbuilt
Of this Kansas City of the Pacif
ct. Her manifold ma ural advantage
sther with the increasing stream {
tors pouring in daily from all par'
he world, make retrogression impol
. and q steady growth certainty.
Yours,
N. W. Rosa.